Couldn’t wait til morning for these:
The House Calendar for 2021 is out. Here’s a story about it. And here’s the document.
FP reports on the fight to be HFAC chairman.
The administration is slashing the size of its embassy in Iraq.
A former official says CIA is losing people because of poor personnel management.
Dan Drezner sees Trump-Biden tug of war over foreign policy.
WSJ says China’s only US friend is Wall Street
CSIS has a list of popular but bad ideas.
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This is a cabinet of horrors. Its distinguishing characteristics are unquestioning loyalty to Donald Trump,…
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I, therefore conclude with a line from the Monk TV series. I may be wrong,…
We acted reluctantly and too late against Germany and Japan. We are likely to be…
I could of course be wrong again. But this is the gloomy picture I am…